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Allstate Insurance Company and the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) announced 146 nominees for the 2017 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® on Monday (July 10), one of the most prestigious off-the-field honors in college football.
Senior Chris Manning (Section, Ala.) has been nominated by the Mississippi College football program and is the only nominee from the Gulf South Conference. While starting as a defensive back in his first three seasons in Clinton, Manning has posted a 3.08 grade-point-average in Psychology, while also serving the community in several different capacities.
While serving as the football team’s representative on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, he and his fellow Choctaws and Lady Choctaws helped to raise over $19,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation and had the privilege of granting a wish at the spring football game in 2017.
Manning has also served with his teammates at Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital in Jackson, Miss. while also helping at Camp 119 at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham, which is a camp for kids ages 6-12 that includes sports, camp games and other various indoor/outdoor activities. He has also served as an after-school tutor through the Community Service office at MC.
On the field, Manning was named the team’s Defensive Rookie of the Year (2014) as a freshman, also earning All-NCCAA honors (2015). He was also given the team’s “Choctaw Award” (2015), which embodies a model football player on and off the field.
Manning is a three-time Gulf South Conference FireSeeds Academic Honor Roll selection and was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team in 2016.
